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Security Awareness Training ROI Calculator

Work out security awareness training roi instantly with clear inputs, formula shown and shareable results.

About Security Awareness Training ROI Calculator

Awareness training ROI compares programme spend against the expected cost of the incidents it prevents. The model assumes a baseline of roughly one successful phishing-driven incident per hundred staff per year, scales that by the measured reduction, and prices the difference. The reduction figure must come from your own simulation data, not a vendor claim, or the whole calculation is circular.

Formula

Training ROI

baseline incidents = employees x 1%; avoided = baseline x reduction; savings = avoided x cost per incident; ROI = (savings - spend) / spend

Worked example

With the default values below, Security Awareness Training ROI Calculator returns Return on training investment of 328.6%. Change any input above and every figure here is recalculated in your browser.

Inputs used

Employees trainedminimum 1
2,000
Training cost per employee per yearminimum 0
35
Reduction in successful phishing incidentsaccepts 0–100 %
60 %
Average cost per incidentminimum 0
25,000

Results

Return on training investment
328.6%
Annual cost avoided
$300,000.00
Annual training spend
$70,000.00
Incidents avoided per year
12.0

Step by step

  1. 1Values used
  2. 2Training ROI
  3. 3Return on training investment= 328.6
  4. 4Annual cost avoided= 300,000.00
  5. 5Annual training spend= 70,000.00
  6. 6Incidents avoided per year= 12.0

Assumptions and limits

  • The result is derived only from the 4 inputs listed above. Anything not among them is not part of the calculation.
  • In particular, this calculator does not take inflation or tax into account.
  • Figures are rounded for display to 2 decimal places, so totals built from several rounded parts can differ slightly from the unrounded arithmetic.

How these calculators are built and tested is described on the Methodology page. If a figure looks wrong, please report it.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is a 60 percent reduction realistic?

Sustained programmes with frequent short simulations report reductions in that range for click rates. Reductions in actual incidents are usually smaller because a single unlucky click can still succeed.

What else should be counted as a benefit?

Faster reporting, which shortens detection time, and reduced help-desk load from avoidable mistakes. Both are real but harder to price than avoided incidents.

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